CONTACT: Patricia Viets FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
John O. Kinsfather 6/6/96
The National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colo., has been honored for its contributions to the field of CD-ROM technology. The center, a pioneer in using CD-ROMs, has been distributing environmental data on CD-ROMs to scientists, educators, industry, and the public for the past ten years.
The data center, part of the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, maintains an active archive of environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics and paleoclimatology. These data are vital to the scientific understanding of the Earth.
The data center received the Federal Government Significant Achievement Recognition Award by the Special Interest Group for CD-ROM Applications and Technology (SIGCAT). The center was cited for making significant contributions to the acceptance and use of CD-ROM technology and for demonstrating the most consistently high quality and quantity multimedia CD-ROM production and impact.
In fiscal year 1995, the data center provided its customers with 2,500,000,000,000 bytes (2.5 terabytes) of CD-ROM data.
The National Geophysical Data Center's address on the World Wide Web is: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov
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